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2011-09-29T22:53:00.000-07:00

Figure Drawing Thursdays, week 2

2011-09-23T23:39:00.001-07:00

It's been a long time. back to the old drawing board.

Sketchbook: "33"

2009-06-18T22:42:00.000-07:00

While on a short vacation last week I managed to get an actual drawing of an actual real person drawn from actual life into my sketchbook. And as it usually goes with a sketchbook, the time gets cut short for one reason or another and the drawing never gets finished. but that's what we love about the sketchbook isn't it.

sketchbook: a boy, a bear, and a bubble horse

2009-03-26T22:07:00.000-07:00

some new madness from the same old sketchbook:

sketchbook: pigs on a stick

2009-03-03T23:11:00.000-08:00

I had this weird dream last night...

sketchbook: bears

2009-02-26T09:18:00.000-08:00

My kids have been into watercolors lately. As long as the paint's out I can't resist stealing a couple colors from their palletes to throw down some washes in the old sketchbook. Doodled up these bears last night during a kitchen table drawing session with the little ones.

sketchbook: blah

2009-02-17T23:01:00.001-08:00

new computer!

2008-11-16T09:52:00.000-08:00

I finally got a new notebook pc. It's better, faster, and stronger than what I had before... so, I made some time last night to do some more work on this piece, since I kinda left it hanging after my old machine died. here it is:

...and here's a back to blue remix update - 11/27

in the shadow of a dream

2008-09-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

My computer died a few days ago. Here's a print of the last thing I was working on.

under construction:

2008-06-03T09:23:00.000-07:00

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store 101 presents:

2008-06-02T14:53:00.000-07:00

I believe "year of the rat: battle of yin and yang" screenprints will be available at the show.

some small owl I saw at the zoo

2008-04-18T23:14:00.000-07:00

sketchbook: more chimps

2008-04-18T23:08:00.000-07:00

sketchbook: chimp faces

2008-04-02T22:41:00.001-07:00

here, kitty kitty....

2008-03-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

burning fish

2008-02-22T07:55:00.000-08:00

inspired by "White Light, Black Rain:

sketchbook: fish 2

2008-01-28T00:20:00.000-08:00

The Battle of Yin and Yang

2008-01-22T00:11:00.000-08:00

I posted the raw sketch of this on The Mokosos blog. The initial topic was "Gargantuan Proportions." For some reason all I could think about was giant rats. Then it evolved into this.

happy year of the rat.

cancel the parade

2008-01-09T02:05:00.000-08:00

sketchbook: elephants

2008-01-02T23:24:00.000-08:00

here's a little sketchbook madness. happy new year.

apple

2007-12-16T23:02:00.001-08:00

my son helped me out a little with this one, and I'm a sucker for minimalism and the fine art of abstract spontaneity.

3D - work in progress 2

2007-12-13T00:27:00.000-08:00

still working on this 3D landscape whenever I find time. Here's piece number 2, still in progress... created with maya, pen and paper.

sketchbook rabbits

2007-11-29T05:14:00.001-08:00

drew some rabbits today.

treat yourself to a new shirt...

2007-10-29T19:01:00.000-07:00

3D - work in progress

2007-10-25T21:39:00.000-07:00

digression has lead me to explore an idea in 3D. starting with this torii, the first piece for the much larger landscape I have in mind. forgive the aliasing in the line quality, this is just a screen grab from the maya interface, not yet rendered, since I haven't figured out how I want to do that yet.

watercolor

2007-09-12T00:05:00.000-07:00

Did this little sketch while the "subject" was watching tv tonight. medium: pencil, watercolor, and whiteout. (with a tiny bit of shameless last minute washes thrown in with painter IX using the watercolor and acrylic tools).

fish

2007-08-31T22:20:00.000-07:00

too much pen makes the pencil jealous so I broke out the lead and put it to the paper. After months of sketchbook neglect I woke up in the middle of the night and thought I should draw some fish.

capricious print #1

2007-08-28T21:22:00.000-07:00

these don't really feel done till I see them in print now... otherwise, its just a bunch of ones and zeros right? Here it is on newsprint.

capricious

2007-08-24T07:25:00.000-07:00

In the works to come, I intend to use the visual language of the popular arts to create a series of prints in the spirit of Francisco Goya's "Los Caprichos". Starting with this one.
"The Black Heart Mother."

Capricious?

2007-08-07T23:17:00.000-07:00

I fell asleep with the tv on the the other night. I barely remember but I kinda rolled up an eyelid halfway in the middle of the night and got a little bit of a newsclip about a some lady who was discovered to have a few dead fetus's of her own lying around her home in garbage bags and such. one under the sink counter of her bathroom or something like that. I don't know. I was half asleep, but I was very fucking disturbed. I shut the tv off and had a nightmare about it... I'm still disturbed by it all. But I drew this picture which I will soon put up in color... I like to think that when it is completed it will be remnant of Francisco Goya's "Saturn devouring his son.,"crossed with the many "Madonna and Child" paintings we've seen throughout the centuries. Anyway, I don't make the people. I just draw the pictures. I'm calling this one "The Black Heart Mother." check back for the color version soon.

Newsprint!

2007-08-03T22:45:00.001-07:00

as intended by the artist, here's some successful test prints on newsprint.

take my hand. take it.

2007-07-22T23:42:00.000-07:00

this idea started as a daydream about a year ago while I was driving. I did some really crappy thumbnail drawings of the "story" on some index cards back then, and now a year later I decided to revisit the idea and turn it into this. enjoy!

take my hand page 2 of 3

2007-07-20T00:52:00.000-07:00

take my hand - page 1 of 3

2007-07-20T00:25:00.000-07:00

mirror, mirror, on the wall....

2007-06-21T22:42:00.000-07:00

The Death Of Snow White

oh deer

2007-06-21T08:05:00.000-07:00

a couple pages from the sketcbook:

shhhhhh (color)

2007-06-02T06:52:00.001-07:00

shhhh

2007-05-31T21:58:00.000-07:00

contorted horses

2007-05-18T00:48:00.000-07:00

here's a little something about horses. Underneath are some pages from the sketchbook of a few quick studies, and a pic of the work in progress. enjoy.

sketchbook: figure drawing

2007-04-28T08:18:00.000-07:00

after 12 hours of mouse clicking, I managed to sneek into a figure drawing session for the last few minutes on thursday night. This one was off to a good start, but then the session ended. oh well.

sketchbook: take my hand

2007-04-12T00:45:00.000-07:00

some pages from the sketchbook... Hand studies for a little something I've been thinkin' about.

This Little Piggy...

2007-04-05T12:30:00.000-07:00

some color. some pig. the saga continues.

new sketchbook!

2007-03-27T21:15:00.000-07:00

started a new sketchbook dedicated to the pentel r.s.v.p. pen line because I love them. here's some pages. down and dirty.

diggin' in the crates

2007-03-08T15:32:00.000-08:00

I noticed a few of my friends have put up some oldies, so I'm going to throw some up as well... these are from one of my sketchbooks back in 2000 when I was studying anatomy at the USF Tampa School of Medicine for a semester. (all drawings from "life").

a quickie

2007-03-01T22:47:00.000-08:00

doodled this up on a couple 3x5 index cards while I waited for my computer to compute something. finished up in photoshop.

ganesh sketches

2007-02-25T17:37:00.000-08:00

just found this on my external hard drive. Did these "Ganesh" sketches last spring, but figured I'd put 'em up here before I lose track of them forever.

detox

2007-02-22T22:16:00.000-08:00

found a faber castell brush pen lying around and drew this picture as I drifted into a 105 degree fever last week.

The Robin

2007-01-25T22:54:00.000-08:00

heres a couple pages devoted to robins.. I wanted to do a piece that was not neccasarily dark or creepy. I like Robins, but I am sad that I have not seen one for many years now.

Falling Robin and The Death of Snow White

2007-01-19T08:44:00.000-08:00

some works in progress.....
The Robin

The Death Of Snow White...Ran out of room on the paper, but there's more to the final composition to come.

Bad Guy Country

2007-01-11T13:35:00.000-08:00

Digitalthree

presents gorilla riot, presenting "Bad Guy Country." Here's a line of t-shirts I designed that should be available some time in March. I don't know for sure if these will be the final colors, but these were my recomendations...

2006 figures

2006-12-20T23:36:00.000-08:00

here's some figure drawings from 2006. Thanks to Vivendi Universal for funding the sessions. Wish I had time to attend more often. But I'm glad they are there when I need 'em!

robin studies

2006-12-13T22:52:00.000-08:00

here are some Robin studies for a new piece that I am thinking about...

fly rabbit fly

2006-12-12T01:35:00.000-08:00

the Rabbit thing in progress

2006-11-25T00:00:00.000-08:00

here's the work in progress of this thing about rabbits... the drawing, and a little grayscale thumbnail of values I'm considering for the final piece.

tis the season

2006-11-23T22:02:00.000-08:00

What says "Christmas in Southern California" better than 2 mexican boys dressed in suits? I ask myslelf that every day. anyway, Feliz Navidad everyone!! And special thanks to my good friends Ernie and David, the dukes of Leucadia, for providing me with the reference pic.

rabbits

2006-11-09T09:16:00.000-08:00

I had a dream about rabbits a few nights ago. I'm going to do a piece about it. In the meantime, here's some quick rabbit studies.

(on a side note, I've been thinking about that movie "Watership Down" and how it used to scare the crap out of me when I was a little kid.)

The Melting Man - Melting Away

2006-11-07T23:45:00.000-08:00

got my laptop back from the repair shop yesterday and finished up this piece. (I gotta get some better high res dirtiness for a printed version though.)

Dia De Los Muertos/holding hands with death

2006-10-31T22:12:00.000-08:00

I actually started this one a few months ago and thought it was finished. But since my laptop is away and I have nothing to paint tonight I started playing around with this a little. I only have the low res version right now so I'll have to re-do this again on the high res version once my laptop gets back from the shop. So... I consider this kind of a test.

this is based on a wierd dream I had - "Holding Hands with Death."

Melting Man

2006-10-30T22:08:00.000-08:00

I have a pretty full day, so I really have to find cracks in time to get any drawing done. I've been keeping 3x5 white index cards and a ballpoint pen in my pocket so that I can doodle whenever an oppurtunity arises. Although its not ideally how I want to work, its resulted in some bizzare wanderings of the subconcious. Here's the Melting Man.

here's a look at the proccess...

Well, I gotta send my laptop into the shop for a week or so to replace the sound card so this is it for now. I'll paint this one when it gets back.

river

2006-10-30T21:59:00.000-08:00

my daughter River was sleeping when I sat down to draw this. I got about 30 seconds into it when she woke up! So... after feeding her and rocking her back to sleep I sat back down and looked at this one and decided to leave it as it was. Something about those first 30 seconds into a drawing that keep it really "honest."

eyekaps says...

2006-10-25T00:03:00.000-07:00

eyekaps knows that a lot of his work can be a little "disturbing" scary, and creepy. eyekaps makes no apologies... just know that eyekaps also seeks out the beauty in in the world as well. One cannot know the "truth" of either without seeking out an understanding of both. eyekaps is curious about the world around him and the world within him (and within you). eyekaps makes no apologies.

here's some recent pages from eyekaps' sketchbook...

speak evil - dirty!

2006-10-24T09:40:00.000-07:00

here's one I did a while ago. My original intention was to make a series of very clean flat colored cartoonish looking works when I started. Maybe its a lack of discipline, or maybe I've just opened up my mind to explore a little more than I originally intended. Anyway, here's the first version I did, and below is the "dirtied" up version. I might still tone down the dirty, I don't know I have to let it marinate on my mind for a while before I decide. Either way I'm envisioning the final output printed on semi-toothy newsprint (large!). I want it to look, feel, and smell like all those old marvel comic books I grew up reading in the early 1990's... before glossy, before dodge and burn, before lens flare! Let'cha know how that turns out.

hello world

2006-10-20T00:57:00.000-07:00

I guess this is my first official posting on a "real" blog. Well, hello world. here is my art. Will anyone ever see this? I don't know.

and here's a close up of the guys in the background...